One of the most completely annoying irritanting and useless developments is the scrolling text on tv. Its true. Maybe everyone involved in TV gets used to reading autocues by somehow training a part of their brain to cope with the dizzying vertigo that afflicts me whenever I try. I really am desperate to read them but they just go so slow - I try to look once, wait a couple of seconds and look again but I can't keep up with it. Maybe woman who can do it with their now famous multi-tasking superpowers. I would like to see an experiment that tested whether or not they do possess such quantum thought processes.
Talking of scientific experiments I was amazed at the way people can be manipulated as demonstrated on Horizon (science TV programme). Interviewers could be made to give a positive assessment of someone simply by casually giving them a warm glass to hold for a moment while travelling in a lift to the interview - and vice-verca with a cold receptacle (not sure if it was a tea mug or not) delivering a consistent negative impact. What are we all about?
One of my customers today was clearly very ill yet she is still going to go into work tomorrow and do her shift then a sleep-over probably followed by another shift. Something wrong is afoot with our priorities. Is it trying for one upmanship. Or are some folk frightened of being accused of not doing their bit. It is a national paranoia that is probably linkied with the sicknote culture, but they are two sides of the same coin.
Commercial interests seem to be the new god. When something happens to make the news it is filtered through a 'what will it do for the econonmy' seive to see if there is a spin that can be added to it that will make us wonder if it makes us a little comfier economically or send us rushing to our bank to withdraw our money (which was 100% guranteed by the government anyway in many cases in the recent banking 'crises' we had). I suppose economies have always to some extent been based on some sort of mutual trust and expectation but it seems to be the more we are worried about the economy then the more likely even a little jitter wil
l do just what we were frightened of in the first place. The worries are almost self-fulfilling.
l do just what we were frightened of in the first place. The worries are almost self-fulfilling.A little serious today I suppose.
I'm off to the Lake Disrict for some walking in the rain tomorrow - I wonder if I can get some wipers fitted to my glasses in time.
Peace out.....
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